Editing ArtScroll (section)

==Editorial policy==
Works published by Mesorah under this imprint adhere to a perspective appealing to many Orthodox Jews, but especially to Orthodox Jews who have come from less religious backgrounds, but are returning to the faith ([[Baalei Teshuva]]). Due to the makeup of the Jewish community in the US, most of the prayer books are geared to the [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazic]] custom. In more recent years, ArtScroll has collaborated with Sephardic community leaders in an attempt to bridge this gap. Examples of this include a Sephardic [[Haggadah]] published by ArtScroll, written by Sephardic Rabbi Eli Mansour, the book ''[[Aleppo]]'', about a prominent [[Sephardic Jews|Sephardic]] community in [[Syria]],<ref>{{cite book
   |title=Through the flames of Aleppo: A novel (ArtScroll youth series)
   |isbn=1578195381|last1=Shalom
 |first1=A.
 |year=2002
 }}</ref> and a Sephardic prayerbook.

In translations and commentaries, ArtScroll accepts [[midrash]]ic accounts in a historical fashion, and at times literally; it disagrees with [[textual criticism]]. Page "X" of the preface to ArtScroll's first publication set the tone: A long paragraph includes "''No non-Jewish sources have even been consulted, much less quoted.'' I consider it offensive that the Torah should need authentication from the secular or so-called 'scientific' sources."<ref>The first of these sentences was the end of a series of ''italicized'' sentences.</ref><ref>{{cite news  |newspaper=[[The Jewish Press]]
   |url=https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/interviews-and-profiles/meir-zlotowitzs-legacy-the-spiritual-engine-of-american-orthodoxys-renaissance/2018/07/18
   |date=July 18, 2018  |access-date=January 10, 2019
   |title=Meir Zlotowitz's Legacy: The Spiritual Engine Of American Orthodoxy's Renaissance
   |author=Yaakov Kornreich}}</ref>

Frequently coalescing to give voice to ArtScroll's worldview is, in the words of   Scherman, "a heavy combination of ''[[Musar literature|mussar]]'' and ''[[Hasidic philosophy|chassidus]]'' that we incorporate into our commentary" such as commentary by [[Hasidic]] Rabbis [[Zadok HaKohen|Tzadok HaKohen]] and [[Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter|Yehudah Leib Alter]].<ref>[https://jewishaction.com/cover-story/the-case-for-a-traditional-approach-in-the-study-of-tanach/ The Case for a Traditional Approach in the Study of Tanach] in the Jewish Action Winter 2018 issue</ref>

Despite the recent trend of most [[Haredi Judaism#Newspapers and publications|Haredi press]] omitting images of women from their magazines or newspapers, ArtScroll continues to publish pictures of women in their books. When someone authoring a biography to be published by ArtScroll requested that pictures of women be left out, ArtScroll "basically told him to go fly a kite, [and] we sent him to an ''adam gadol'' [a prominent [[Torah scholar]]] who basically washed the floors with him."<ref>Rabbi Avrohom Biderman in minute 53-54 of [https://web.archive.org/web/20200724040055/https://episodes.buzzsprout.com/rvcyx8fu7oq5zpzaxq4ayn71zdqb?response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D%27with-r-avrohom-biderman-of-artscroll-discussing-all-things-artscroll.mp3%27%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27with-r-avrohom-biderman-of-artscroll-discussing-all-things-artscroll.mp3&response-content-type=audio%2Fmpeg& May 7, 2020 Twitter Live podcast] with [https://twitter.com/SeforimChatter/status/1264749263776632835 SeforimChatter]. Archived from [http://seforimchatter.buzzsprout.com/1218638/4567262-with-r-avrohom-biderman-of-artscroll-discussing-all-things-artscroll|the original] on July 24, 2020.</ref>

=== Transliteration system ===
ArtScroll publications,<ref>{{cite web
|title=Jewish prayers for Orthodox services - Translation and transliteration
|url=http://www.kakatuv.com/orthodox.html
|quote=... correspond to the Rabbinical Council of America Edition of the Artscroll Siddur}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|title=If You Can Read This - You Can Pray In Hebrew
|url=http://ou.org.s3.amazonaws.com/publications/siddur.htm}}</ref> such as the [[Irving I. Stone|Stone Editions]] of Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and [[Chumash (Judaism)|Chumash]] (Pentateuch) use many more transliterated Hebrew words than English words, compared to editions such as the [[Tanakh]] of the [[Jewish Publication Society]]. This reflects a higher use of untranslated Hebrew terminology in Haredi English usage.

ArtScroll's transliteration system for [[Hebrew transliteration]] for readers of the English language generally uses [[Ashkenazi Hebrew|Ashkenazi]] consonants and [[Sephardi Hebrew|Sefardi]] vowels. The two major differences between the way Sefardi and Ashkenazi Hebrew dialects are transcribed are as follows:
*the letter [[Taw (letter)|Tav]] without a [[dagesh]] (emphasis point) is transcribed as [t] and [s] respectively
**ArtScroll uses the latter
*the vowel [[niqqud|kamatz gadol]], is transcribed [a] and [o] respectively
**ArtScroll uses the former

As such, the following transliterations are used:
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Ashkenazi
!Sefardi
!ArtScroll
|-
|Boruch
|Barukh
|Baruch
|-
|Shabbos
|Shabbat
|Shabbos (<small>ArtScroll makes an exception due to widespread usage</small>)
|-
|Succos
|Succot
|Succos
|-
|Avrohom
|Avraham
|Avraham
|-
|Akeidas Yitzchok
|Akedat Itzhak
|Akeidas Yitzchak
|}